Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Honey" by Mariah Carey
In the UK:
"Candle In The Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Steve Case
(TIME Cover: September the 22nd, 1997)
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Famous people born on the 27th of September: |
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1960 - Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997 |
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Stanley B. Prusiner
1942-
for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
USA
University of California School of Medicine - San Francisco, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1997 (USA) |
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$1.17 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1997 |
Titanic
directed by James Cameron
with Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater) and Gloria Stuart (Old Rose)
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Designed in 1997 |
The Vega chair
by Jasper Morrison |
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